ABSTRACT
Among the different social and political groups in India whose activities are clearly discernible and capable to some extent of being satisfactorily estimated, the Congress party may be taken as that which represents preeminently the higher secular education. The Indian agitator attacks indiscriminately the good and the bad actions of government, with the zest of a schoolboy playing at a new game and the bitterness of one who believes that his personal aspirations are debarred from a legitimate outlet in an administrative career. He overlooks, too, in most cases, the difference between party strife in a country with responsible self-government, and class opposition in a country where the Government must necessarily remain autocratic. The difficulty of the sympathetic observer of the manifestations of Indian unrest is to decide with what set of conditions, real or imaginary, the circumstances of India should be brought into comparison.
